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So many wild and wonderful stories in the news this week. Here is a rundown of the top stories in pseudoscience, anomalies and the paranormal that will make you laugh, cry and pull your hair out from the past week courtesy of Doubtful News.

A few stories related back to topics, people and items you will find here at the JREF site.

A new episode of Consequence (an official podcast of the JREF) featured Dr. David Gorski and Bob Blaskiewicz on the Burzynski clinic.

If you don't know about this topic, you really should. There is far more to hear than the "success" stories put out their by the clinic's PR machine. And it's not pretty.

Don't forget to donate to the Crowdrise for St. Jude's cancer research.

You can also donate to fund the James Randi biopic. This looks fantastic and is a very worthwhile way to support getting recognition for the decades of work Uber-skeptic Mr. Randi has done.

If you listened to a previous episode (actually two-parts) of a Consequence podcast, you'd remember the story of the cult of Ramtha. It's difficult to forget. Well, the "school of enlightenment" issued a press release this week telling the world that remote viewing training can win you some big bucks in the lottery.

There were multiple stories about vaccines this week. Some were good examples of what harm the media can do in warping the message. The Huffington Post does a bang up job with one of their notorious writers.

“Health Day” piece uses Barbara Loe Fisher of the anti-vax National Vaccination Information Center as an “expert” in this piece that reports that the vaccination schedule is safe.